oh dear

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4 minutes ago, Ponky said:

Well Olsen's reached his usual quota of 3 conceded

and I don't think he's had a bad game.

13 minutes ago, villan95 said:

Huddersfield, Rotherham, Bolton, Peterborough, Barnsley, maybe even Blackpool and Wigan should all be decent competition

Only a few others like Bristol Rovers, Burton, Cambridge, Charlton, Crawley, Exeter, Leyton Orient, Lincoln, Mansfield, Northampton, Reading, Shrewsbury, Stevenage, Stockport, Wigan, Wrexham, Wycombe, apart from those additional few I think you are spot on.
 

57 minutes ago, Xann said:

Dry herb vapes such as the Arizer Air Max don't smell at all, unless it's exhaled straight into someone's face.

Just the thing for an MS flare when you don't want to stink out your house and neighbourhood.

Top tip. 

18 hours ago, Nor-Cal Villan said:

Just now seeing this, as I am new here. My wife has MS. Diagnosed in 1998, has mostly done well ever since with the exception of a couple of exacerbations during times of high stress. We were told we would have to move somewhere with a cooler climate but we’re still here. It gets brutally hot here but common sense and done routine altering has more than worked for her. I hope you are doing well and have it in control. In our situation the drugs have been a miracle 

MS is hideous, it is so unpredictable. I've got a few friends who are doing really well, I've also got very many who are not doing so well. The ones doing well, all seem to be able to keep infection free, not so much stress free though (one is going through a really tricky divorce).
As for myself I have my bad days, I have my worse days. I've had non stop kidney / urinary infections for the past 5 - 6 years, most of the time ending up in hospital.
You mention the heat, thats a killer for me. I assume you have air conditioning in your home? reason I ask, i went to the cinema last year to see Oppenheimer, it was really cold in the cinema, I went into the cinema being pushed in a wheelchair, I WALKED!? out of the cinema pushing the wheelchair - much to the bemusement of the cinema staff.
Are there support groups near by? I've made a load of good friends from them.

2 minutes ago, MaVilla said:

my lord, the quality in the League One playoff Final (Bolton vs Oxford), has been terrible.

Awful football from both teams. The decision making by the players especially the Bolton players has been terrible. These are meant to be professional footballers. If this is the standard of football in League one, Blose might stand a chance of staying up.

On 15/05/2024 at 09:23, Wainy316 said:

 

@Wainy316 wins the thread - Ulysses 31, great tune, great cartoon. nothing more to see here, move along.

4 hours ago, tomav84 said:

i know it's not your table...my thoughts are that the rivalries involving the manc/liverpool/and north london teams are too high. they're too touristy now as clubs to have any sort of fierce rivalry.

saints v portsmouth is waaaaay too low (should be on par with villa and blues). as is cardiff v swansea.

imagine the bristol derby to be too low too as i know they're both quite lairy fanbases? problem is they've not played each other in years. similar with stoke vs port vale (should also be fairly highly ranked but not even on the list)

do leeds not have any close rivals or does everyone just hate them?

anyone got any from their local non league clubs? dorchester vs poole is a local one for me (wonderfully nicknamed "el jurassico")

@tomav84 so right! Having been around both, for me the Pompey Southampton rivalry beats Villa Blues. Not sure why that is, maybe because Southampton and Pompey are similar in size. Blues really can't shine a light on us - although when they get their 60k stadium and have won the FA Cup, league and Champions League back to back to back to back to back to back ...  maybe then in the next 50 years or so they might have earned the right. Also, we don't play often enough because they aren't good enough, just hope we dont draw them in the FA Cup 3rd round next year - that's assuming they make it that far and haven't blown their wad on the Bristol Street Motors cup

I lived up in Leeds for a year, I thoroughly loved my time there - even considered relocating, brilliant city, brilliant people, Leeds FC though can do one.

5 hours ago, _AA_786 said:

He's a busy man, cheeky bit of pre-made PowerPoint SmartArt, can't go wrong. 

maybe next time he could notch his presentations up a level and use Etch-a-sketch or maybe Magna-doodle

14 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said:

Something a bit slower, more anthemic, a classic of some kind - Crazy Train just isn't well known enough, I doubt many of the the under thirties at Villa Park have a clue what it is other than that it's played before Villa games and I can honestly say I can't remember the last time I heard it anywhere else.

You're clearly not down with the kids...

1 hour ago, rjw63 said:

the gangster formerly known as Jabba?

love the zip cut on his neck / chin, that must have stung like a bee-aaatch

love this thread, am waiting for the gestapo to relegate this thread to Travel like they did to my worse places to be... thread.

8 hours ago, GarethRDR said:

we used to walk by this bad boy most lunchtimes just to give it a stroke.

1 hour ago, Nor-Cal Villan said:

I used C to preempt the inevitable complaining

This is just the opening act. Will be extremely warm until around Halloween. At least our weather is extremely predictable 

8 minutes ago, Tegis said:

One MILLION points to Gryffinpuff, **** you Snape, gryffinpuff wins

I almost choked to death laughing, thanks.

1 minute ago, Nor-Cal Villan said:

the hole in the hand. Just sayin’

try anything once, or twice......

27 minutes ago, Nor-Cal Villan said:

would

1 hour ago, Tayls said:

I think I preferred the shape of the previous lion…

I'm not sure, I saw the badge and thought it would be cool if the Adidas logo is really the old lion, but shredded.

From the BBC - Israel Eurovision contestant Eden Golan booed during rehearsal

here's to us not coming last this year.

3 minutes ago, AshVilla said:

Could Redknapp go in for another stint.

Has been out a job for sometime now.

Managing Blose would be a big step down from soccer aid.

FTFY

2 hours ago, Robbie09 said:

Same village as me, Dorridge

 

off topic but I used to live in Dorridge, I left in 1994.

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Russian plot to kill Zelensky foiled, Kyiv says

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-68968256

I'm guessing it was foiled by moving Zelensky to a bungalow with no windows.

3 hours ago, magnkarl said:

I'm afraid the cause is being marred by what seems to be a rather large minority of idiots who don't understand how they are coming across, or simply don't care.

Totally agree, there are some real clowns running Israel.